Events

9/28/22-9/30/22

Oslo, Norway

NDC Oslo

Join Honeycomb speakers Alayshia Knighten as she speaks on Progressive Delivery with Observability and Martin Thiwaites as he speaks on Building Operable Software with TDD (but not in the way you think).

9/29/22

Virtual

Hands-on Advanced Honeycomb Query Builder and SLO Workshop - September

This is a hands-on workshop specifically on Service Level Objectives (SLOs). We will work through examples and advanced use cases of Derived Columns, pushing the boundaries of what they can do. Finally, we will pull it all together by defining and creating SLOs.

9/28/22

Virtual

Hands-on Advanced Instrumentation Workshop - September

Join us for an interactive workshop with instructor-led exercises where you will be able to make changes to a sample application instrumented with OpenTelemetry to see how those modifications help you get better insights with Honeycomb.

9/27/22

Virtual

Making the Case: the Business Value of Observability

In this session, we’ll unpack how to understand where you are on the observability maturity curve, build the business case for reaching higher levels of production excellence, and get widespread organizational support to make observability a core organizational practice.

9/22/22

Virtual

Intercom: Building a More Resilient Ecosystem Through Observability

Join us to hear how Intercom uses Distributed Traces to streamline their observability workflows, allowing their product engineers to learn about and from their production to increase resilience.

9/21/22

Virtual

Hands-on Introduction to Observability Workshop - September

The workshop is instructor-led with breakout rooms and hands-on exercises. Whether you are new to observability or Honeycomb, this workshop is a great way to get started with both.

9/15/22

London, UK

SREday 2022

Alayshia Knighten keynotes SREday with her talk on Progressive Delivery with Observability. Build, test, and deploy can be a bloody nightmare. So we try in non-production environments and hold our breath, hoping that everything is okay when we push our deployments to production. When it’s not okay, we waste time mimicking a fake production environment. What if I told you we had a way to monitor our production systems based on the data we receive from them?

9/14/22

Virtual

Deserted Island DevOps

Join us as we chat about Fostering a Culture of Learning Through Observability. In this talk, we will explore what it means to build a culture of observability within engineering teams, how a culture of observability fosters a culture of learning, and how these practices build a foundation to do things like onboard new engineers more effectively, help engineers level up, and take on apprentices.

9/13/22

Virtual

Options for Managing Telemetry Volume At Scale & How Slack Does It

In this session, you’ll learn the pros and cons of different sampling techniques and how to still retain granular visibility into your system state. We’ll discuss why sampled events are better than the traditional method of pre-aggregated metrics, brought to life through a demo of Refinery, Honeycomb’s sampling solution.

9/11/22-9/14/22

Boston, MA

ChefConf '22

Join Andy Dufour to learn about Observability for Config Management & Compliance. Follow us on a journey of using state of the art observability (o11y) tools like Honeycomb while we make sense of heterogenous environments and combine different datatypes including Chef and Inspec outputs to give you a holistic window into your complex systems.

9/7/22-9/14/22

Austin, TX + Virtual

DeveloperWeek Global Cloud

Phillip Carter, speaker at DeveloperWeek Global Cloud, will talk about how to get started with Open Telemetry. OpenTelemetry is the best way to generate Observability data today and tomorrow. Get started by using Automatic Instrumentation, then adding manual instrumentation over time with the OpenTelemetry APIs.

9/1/22

Virtual

Honeycomb Best Practices Office Hours

Join our open Office Hours on September 1 at 9 a.m. PDT to learn and discuss Honeycomb best practices on tracing, SLOs, and metrics with our observability experts!

8/25/22

Virtual

Hands-on Advanced Instrumentation Workshop - August

Join us for an interactive workshop with instructor-led exercises where you will be able to make changes to a sample application instrumented with OpenTelemetry to see how those modifications help you get better insights with Honeycomb.

8/24/22

Virtual

How to Send Data to Honeycomb via the OpenTelemetry Collector

This hands-on workshop will teach you how to configure and send different types of data to Honeycomb, use OpenTelemetry processors, and how to optimize and troubleshoot.

8/23/22

Virtual

Accelerate CI/CD with Observability

We’ll be joined in this session by Frank Chen, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Slack, who will dive into how Slack gained powerful troubleshooting insights by applying observability to their software delivery practice.

8/23/22

Virtual

OpenTelemetry in Practice: Kubernetes & The Collector

Welcome to the OpenTelemetry in Practice series! This is a new experiment by some OpenTelemetry contributors in the End User Working Group. We’re aiming to address practical problems that commonly stop development teams from succeeding with OpenTelemetry.

8/22/22-8/23/22

Cologne, Germany + Virtual

DevCom Developer Conference

Join Honeycomb in Cologne, Germany or virtually for DDC 2022: the official game developer conference of gamescon. Listen to Honeycomb CTO and Co-Founder Charity Majors talk, From SLO to GOTY: How Actionable Alerts Lead to Adoring Fans. Instead of trying to guess which of your system metrics have the potential to cause an issue, your tools need to evolve from asking the same kinds of questions that your users are. An SLO, or Service Level Objective, lets you do this.

8/19/22

Virtual

Hands-on Introduction to Observability Workshop - August

The workshop is instructor-led with breakout rooms and hands-on exercises. Whether you are new to observability or Honeycomb, this workshop is a great way to get started with both.

8/9/22

Virtual

Actionable Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Based on What Matters Most

In this session, we’ll discuss the inherent dangers of alert fatigue that are normalized in monitoring-based alerting systems and how the combination of SLOs with structured event data provides a more beneficial experience than using time-series data or aggregated counts.

8/5/22

Wellington, New Zealand

Cloud Native Summit

Liz Fong-Jones keynotes, "Sustainably Operating Cloud-Native Systems." In this talk, you’ll learn about several practices core to production excellence: giving everyone a stake in production, collaborating to ensure observability, measuring with Service Level Objectives, and prioritizing improvements using risk analysis.

7/29/22

Virtual

Ask Miss O11y Twitter Space

We’d love for you to join us on Twitter this Friday at noon PST for a casual discussion, and bring your most burning observability and OpenTelemetry questions for the group to chat about.

7/26/22

Virtual

Changing Practices on Your Team - Observability Driven Development

Implementing observability isn’t just about how you instrument your applications, but how you work as a team. There are some key patterns we’ve observed at Honeycomb that have helped organizations reap the rewards of observability quickly. We’ll discuss these patterns, and how to introduce observability into our development cycles earlier.

7/20/22

Virtual

Hands-on Advanced Instrumentation Workshop - July

Join this workshop for instructor-led exercises and learn how to make changes to a sample application instrumented with OpenTelemetry to see how those modifications help you get better insights within Honeycomb.

7/14/22

Virtual

Hands-on Introduction to Observability Workshop - July

The workshop is instructor-led with breakout rooms and hands-on exercises. Whether you are new to observability or Honeycomb, this workshop is a great way to get started with both.

7/13/22

Virtual

Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Buy vs Build

Learn how it’s possible to resolve incidents quickly with the powerful and widely accessible core analysis loop of an observability tool—where anyone on the team can form hypotheses, validate or invalidate them with data, and thereby quickly and systematically arrive at the answer to a complex problem.

6/27-6/29

Portland, Oregon

Monitorama Portland Sponsor

Meet the team and check out our booth at Monitorama in Portland, Oregon. You will hear from industry experts and community leaders as they discuss the newest approaches in monitoring and observability.

6/23/22

Virtual

Michael Sickles, INS1GHTS2022 Speaker

Join us virtually to learn about Understanding Complex Environments with Distributed Tracing. In this talk, Michael Sickles will go over the benefits of distributed tracing and how we can tame our systems in a highly distributed world.

6/22/22

Toronto

AWS Summit Toronto

Join us in Toronto for AWS Summit June 22-23. AWS recommends full stack observability to understand and measure user experience for your cloud applications. Learn how Honeycomb lets you understand how individual users experience your applications; running in AWS or beyond.

6/22/22

Virtual

Technical Q&A Session for New Honeycomb Users

This casual, interactive session will be led by our very own Jessica Kerr and will address the most commonly asked questions by new users. There will be a brief overview of observability fundamentals with Honeycomb and a live Q&A!

6/21/22

Virtual

How Observability Relates to DevOps, SRE, & Cloud Native

In this session, we will unpack how observability fits into the landscape of other modern practices, such as the DevOps, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), and cloud native movements.

6/16/22

Virtual

How to Avoid Being On-call With Under-Instrumented Tools

Paige Bernier will share lessons learned on why rich instrumentation is required for successful debugging, and will debunk myths that it is too hard or expensive to do it.

6/16/2022

San Francisco, CA

Charity Majors, Hypergrowth Engineering Summit Speaker

Join Charity, Honeycomb's CIO and Co-Founder, as she discusses The Pardox of Alerts (Tales From a Modern On-Call Team). The bigger and more complex your systems get, the fewer alerts you should actually have. You should be proactively addressing the things that are paging you, and on call rotations can be fun… even voluntary.

6/15/22

Virtual

Hands-on Introduction to Observability Workshop

This workshop is instructor-led with breakout rooms and hands-on exercises. Whether you are new to observability or Honeycomb, this workshop is a great way to get started with both.

6/7/22

London

LeadDev London

Join the Honeycomb team in London June 7 and 8 to chat about observability solutions and high performing teams. Learn how to get the most out of your team without burning them out.

6/7/22

Virtual

How Observability Differs from Traditional Monitoring

With a technical foundation in place, this session cuts through the marketing hype to deliver a concrete — and capability-based —definition of the term observability: what it is, why it’s needed, how it’s different, and how it comes together with monitoring.

6/7/22

Virtual

Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones, PagerDuty Summit Speakers

Join Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors and Principle Developer Advocate Liz Fong-Jones at the virtual PagerDuty Summit as they chat about Observability During Development.

6/2/22

Virtual

Jessica Kerr, Craft Conf Speaker

Join Jessica in Budapest or virtually to learn about Gamification without the Garbage. In this session, find parallels between team organization and game design. These can help us build stronger, more cohesive teams; enhance expertise; and sustainably improve business outcomes.

5/31/22

Zurich, Switzerland

Charity Majors, DevOpsDays Zurich Keynote Speaker

Charity, Honeycomb CTO & Co-founder, is keynoting at DevOpsDays Zurich. Join this in-person event to hear her talk about "The Sociotechnical Path to High-Performing Teams."

5/24/22

Virtual

Structured Events Are The Basis of Observability

In this inaugural Authors’ Cut session, we’ll kick off your observability journey by exploring the fundamental technical requirements needed for capturing high-cardinality and high-dimensionality data, the secret sauce of observability.

5/24/22

Detroit, MI

Jessica Kerr, Agile & Beyond Keynote Speaker

When we play a game, we take on the goals, rules, and abilities offered, in order to have fun together. When we join a team, we take on the team's goals, processes, and capabilities, in order to get paid -- and to participate in shared work. Recognizing these deeper similarities, let's apply some principles of game design to how we work as a software team!

5/16/22-5/20/22

Valencia, Spain + Virtual

KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Europe

We are excited to be sponsoring this year's KubeCon+CloudNative Europe hybrid conference. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Be sure to visit our booth.

5/18/22

Virtual

Introduction to Observability Workshop

The workshop is instructor-led with breakout rooms and hands-on exercises. Whether you are new to observability or Honeycomb, this workshop is a great way to get started with both. This is a live classroom-style workshop—so bring your questions!

5/9/22-5/12/22

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, SLO Conf speaker

Liz, Honeycomb Principal Developer Advocate, is speaking at the SLOConf. Come learn from our mistakes and be better able to implement streaming SLO evaluation at scale for true real-time SLO computation, action, and iteration on existing SLOs.

5/9/22-5/12/22

Virtual

Jessica Kerr, o11yfest speaker

Jessica, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is joining the o11yfest virtual conference. Get insight into what the code is doing immediately, and keep that insight in production. Is ‘create span’ the new ‘printf’?

5/11/22

Virtual

QCon Plus Speaker, Jessica Kerr

Visibility into production behavior benefits product planning, organization design, and business decisions. With observability, we can get the software to help us change it smoothly and safely. Jessica will explain how at QCon Plus.

4/28/22

Virtual

WTF is SRE Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity, Honeycomb's CTO and co-founder will be speaking at the virtual WTF is SRE conference. Come hear her talk on fulfilling the promise of continuous delivery.

4/28/22

Virtual

Hands-on Advanced Instrumentation Workshop

Join us for an interactive workshop that includes hands-on labs in Zoom breakout rooms. There will be instructor-led exercises where you will be able to make changes to a sample application instrumented with OpenTelemetry to see how those modifications help you get better insights with Honeycomb.

4/19/22

Virtual

Emerging Technologies For The Enterprise 2022 Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity, CTO & Co-founder of Honeycomb, is speaking at the ETE 2022 virtual conference. Join her to hear about the glorious future of observability.

4/19/22

Virtual

Incident Response Using Triggered SLOs

Join us for a fireside chat with Honeycomb’s CTO Charity Majors, Solutions Architect Director Pierre Tessier, and SRE Fred Hebert, where Fred will show how he used a service-level objective (SLO) to understand and fix a recent incident.

4/19/22

Virtual

Jessica Kerr, Emerging Technologies For The Enterprise 2022 Speaker

Jessica, Developer Advocate of Honeycomb, is speaking at the ETE 2022 virtual conference. She will discuss how organizations can use goals, rules, and environment to make development fun and profitable to the business.

4/13/22

Virtual

How Heroku Uses Metrics Within Honeycomb

Sarah Sherbondy and Jeremy Morrell of Heroku join Honeycomb for a conversation on how their team is taking advantage of Honeycomb Metrics.

4/8/22

New York, NY

LeadingEng Conference Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity joins other engineering leaders to share her knowledge and experience at the LeadingEng Conference. Learn how you can build teams that nurture great engineers.

4/5/22-4/7/22

New York, NY

LeadDev New York 2022 Sponsor

Honeycomb is proud to sponsor this year's LeadDev conference. Visit our booth in New York to say hi to Honeycomb and learn more about what observability can do for your team.

4/6/22

The QEII Centre, London

Jessica Kerr, QCon London Speaker

Jessica, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is speaking at QCon London. Learn why you should look at software as part of the team so observability in the software becomes an asset to organizing teams.

4/1/22

Virtual

Christine Yen, Incident Response Conference Panelist

Christine, Honeycomb CEO and Co-founder, is joining a panel of Founders at the IR conference. They will discuss "Incidents at Scale: Building a Positive Culture."

4/1/22

Virtual

Incident Response Conference Speaker, Fred Hebert

Fred, Honeycomb Site Reliability Engineer, is speaking virtually at IRconf. He will cover the changes in attitude and benefits that can come from changing the framing around causes and errors, and the positive impacts they can have on your system.

3/29/22

Virtual

BigVis 2022 Keynote Speaker, Danyel Fisher

Danyel, Honeycomb User Data Expert, is a keynote speaker at this year's BigViss workshop. He will discuss how Honeycomb continues to evolve its storage and query engines in tandem with its user experience.

3/29/22

Virtual

Best Practices Using Honeycomb and Terraform Provider With Hashicorp

Join Jason Harley, Honeycomb Senior Customer Architect and Hashicorp Ambassador, along with Nic Jackson, Principal Developer Advocate at Hashicorp, as they demonstrate best practices when using Honeycomb with Terraform.

3/24/22

Virtual

It’s 5 o’clock Somewhere Series

Grab a beer (or your drink of choice) and join Honeycomb as we showcase recent product updates + new features. We are offering two time-zone friendly sessions. Come to one or both—after all, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere!

3/24/22

San Francisco

GDC 2022 Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity will be in San Francisco for this year's Game Developer Conference. Her talk will show how the socio-technical practices you implement can foster productivity, trust, and satisfaction across teams at the massive scale modern games require.

3/23/22

Virtual

Introduction To Observability Workshop

This workshop covers both the theory and practice of observability. You’ll familiarize yourself with both Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry with hands-on exercise, and also learn how to introduce observability into your organization.

3/22/22

Virtual

How we (begrudgingly) moved some of our services to Kubernetes

Join Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors, Engineering Manager Ian Smith, and SRE Fred Hebert for a fireside chat to discuss why Honeycomb migrated to Kubernetes.

Thursdays

Virtual

Weekly Live Demo

Our weekly live demos are fun 🎉 and informative 📄! Come for the walk-on music, stay for the #observability. Join the party, bring your questions, and learn.

3/16/2022

Virtual

SRECon Americas Speakers, Liz Fong-Jones & Jessica Kerr

Honeycomb's Liz and Jessica are giving a talk at SRECon Americas. They will describe the pitfalls of managing lambdas at scale, including impatience, maximum concurrency, runtime and architecture configuration/experimentation, and the price/performance of renting 20,000 parallel workers.

3/3/22

Virtual

Honeycomb 2022 Roadmap Session

Join us for a look at the Honeycomb product development process in our roadmap session. Presented by VP Product, Megan Gleason, and Product Engineer, Max Edmands, this event will show you how to get involved in shaping Honeycomb’s product roadmap.

2/23/2022

Virtual

Advanced Instrumentation Workshop

This workshop uses hands-on exercises where you make changes to a sample application instrumented with OpenTelemetry to see how those modifications help you get better insights with Honeycomb.

2/17/2022

Virtual

You're Invited: Honeycomb OpenTelemetry User Group

Learn about successful adoption patterns from Honeycomb customers during a virtual engineering discussion with Mike Goldsmith, Telemetry Engineer of Honeycomb, that covers emergent practices and provides actionable advice.

2/8/2022

Virtual

DeveloperWeek Speaker, Phillip Carter

Phillip, Honeycomb Senior Product Manager, is presenting a talk at the DeveloperWeek virtual conference. At the end of this talk, you should feel empowered to adopt OpenTelemetry today and participate in an increasingly vendor-neutral future!

2/8/22

Virtual

Modernizing a 20-year-old codebase with observability

Join Nick Herring, CCP’s Technical Director of Infrastructure, and Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb’s Principal Developer Advocate, in conversation about CCP’s efforts to modernize the stack of EVE Online, and move at the speed of cloud, rather than of mainframe.

1/27/22

Virtual

Ask Miss O11y Live Q&A

Honeycomb's Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and Jessica Kerr are recapping observability highlights of 2021 and answering your questions live. Already have questions in mind? You can submit them after registering.

1/26/2022

Virtual

Introduction To Observability

This workshop covers both the theory and practice of observability. You’ll familiarize yourself with both Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry with hands-on exercise, and also learn how to introduce observability into your organization.

1/12/22

Virtual

Charity Majors, Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Observability Speaker

Charity, Honeycomb CTO & Co-founder, is speaking at O'Reilly's Infrastructure & Ops Superstream: Observability virtual event. She digs into some of the deep technical reasons why, then shares some modern approaches to debugging complex systems, including Honeycomb and distributed tracing.

12/21/2021

Virtual

How to Effectively Lead High Performing Engineering Teams in 2022

RedMonk’s James Governor and Honeycomb’s Charity Majors will discuss what it takes to be the best of the best, based on their own experience with modern engineering teams across the globe. Walk away with practical steps to improve your team’s performance in 2022.

12/13–12/15

Virtual

Honeycomb Developer Week

Developers deserve the best in observability, and Honeycomb is here for them. Sign up to be the first to learn about our planned workshops, technical demos, and partner presentations.

12/8/21

Virtual

Happy Campers: Confidently modernize services with observability

Join us in conversation with Campspot and learn how they instrumented Honeycomb quickly and are leading the way to a modern, reliable, relaxing camping experience for all.

12/7/21

Virtual

Developer Week Global Speaker, Phillip Carter

Phillip, Honeycomb Senior Product Manager, is joining Developer Week Global's virtual conference. He will walk you through what OpenTelemetry is, why you should choose it if you’re building cloud-native applications, and strategies for instrumenting a system with it.

12/1/21

Virtual

Observability in Sociotechnical Systems: Using Telemetry Data to Inform Software & Org Design

Join Matthew Skelton, co-author of Team Topologies, and Jessica Kerr, Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, December 1 at 3 p.m. GMT for a conversation about structuring software teams for fast flow of change.

11/30/21

Virtual

Roundtable: Real-world Engineering Lessons: Switching From APM To Honeycomb

Learn how you can get fast answers to any of your application performance questions by registering for our roundtable discussion. Charity Majors will join engineering leaders from Lacework and Vanguard as they share lessons they learned by migrating away from APM to Honeycomb.

11/17/21

Virtual

Unblock Conf 21 Speaker, Pierre Tessier

Honeycomb is proud to sponsor Unblock, a three-day virtual developer conference for teams implementing CI/CD at scale. Pierre, our Solutions Architect Director, will also be sharing a talk on building observability with Honeycomb.

11/16/21

Virtual

Introduction to Observability Workshop

Join Liz Fong-Jones and Jessica Kerr for this 3-hour workshop covering the theory and practice of observability. You’ll familiarize yourself with both Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry with hands-on exercises, and also learn how to introduce observability into your organization.

11/16/21

Virtual

CMG Monitoring and Observability Sponsor

We are excited to be a sponsor for the upcoming CMG Monitoring and Observability virtual conference. This event will cover new techniques and tools to support modern distributed and hybrid systems.

11/10/21

Virtual

Take Control of Your Observability Data, Roundtable Discussion

Learn about successful adoption patterns from teams at Campspot, Upgrade, and Jimdo during an engineering roundtable discussion that covers emergent practices and provides actionable advice about OpenTelemetry.

11/9/21

Virtual

Trajectory Conf Speakers, Liz Fong-Jones & Paul Osman

Liz and Paul are joining LaunchDarkly's Trajectory conference to share how two sets of outages caused Honeycomb's medium-sized startup to pause and re-evaluate infrastructure plans. Find out what they learned as a result.

10/26/21-11/5/21

Virtual

Your Boring-est Game Launch Ever

Honeycomb is offering game studios the opportunity to jumpstart their observability journey, with experts to guide you at every step. Register for free observability workshops and consultations. Make this the most boring and routine launch your team has ever had.

10/28/21

Virtual

All Day DevOps Keynote Speaker, Liz Fong-Jones

Liz is a keynote speaker at the free All Day DevOps virtual conference. Join her talk to hear about the context for two sets of outages that caused our medium-sized startup to pause and re-evaluate our infrastructure plans at Honeycomb.

10/26/21-10/28/21

Virtual

DeveloperWeek API World Sponsor

We are excited to partner with DeveloperWeek API World. This virtual event is a vendor-neutral API conference and expo​ with ​3,500+ qualified Executives, Engineers, Developers, and potential Integration Partners ​who ​come to the API World to connect with API providers, learn, network, and build great APIs and apps.

10/20/2021

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, Pulumi Cloud Engineering Summit Speaker

Liz is giving a talk at Pulumi Cloud Engineering Summit. This event is a virtual day of learning for cloud practitioners that focuses on best practices for building, deploying, and managing modern cloud infrastructure.

10/11/21-10/15/21

Los Angeles, California

KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America Sponsor

Honeycomb is proud to sponsor KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2021. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers leading technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing.

10/13/21

Virtual

SRECon 21 Speaker, Liz Fong-Jones

Liz is speaking at SRECon 21, a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. Tune in for her to discuss how to optimize cost and performance with arm64.

10/6/21

Virtual

Using OpenTelemetry With Honeycomb

Join Honeycomb's Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter for an upcoming webinar. Learn what OpenTelemetry is, how it makes instrumenting your code easier, and why it should be a key part of your observability strategy

10/4/21

Virtual

DevOps Loop Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity is sharing a lightning talk at the DevOps Loop virtual event. Register now to learn helpful tips and practical information from her talk "CI/CD: 15 Minutes or Bust."

9/30/21

Virtual

Sponsor, Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering

Honeycomb is delighted to sponsor this year's Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering virtual event. Register now to hear about building reliable systems, monitoring and alerting, distributed systems, chaos engineering, and more.

9/22/21

Virtual

Applications and Infrastructure Together: Completing Your Observability Story

With Honeycomb Metrics, you have a simple way to bring applications and infrastructure issues into the same unified debugging interface. In this webinar, Liz and Max will cover how Honeycomb offers a complete and singular solution that helps you quickly pinpoint faults in any part of your stack.

9/16/21

Virtual

CMG: Performance Engineering and DevOps Sponsor

Honeycomb is partnering with the CMG: Performance Engineering and DevOps virtual conference. Join us to hear from industry experts for keynote presentations and technical demonstrations designed to help companies understand the why, when, and how to integrate performance engineering and performance testing into their DevOps practice.

9/14/21-9/15/21

VIrtual

Charity, DeveloperWeek Global: Cloud Speaker

Charity is giving a talk on the future of observability at the DeveloperWeek Global Cloud virtual conference. Honeycomb will be there too so register now for free by using the link below.

9/14/21

Virtual

LeadDev Live Panelist, Charity Majors

Charity joins engineering leaders for a panel discussion at the LeadDev Live virtual event. They will explore the senior IC <> manager relationship, thinking about how to create a mutually beneficial partnership.

9/1/2021

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, LeadDev Webinar Panelist

Liz joins leading engineers as a panelist for LeadDev's "Breaking down knowledge silos between engineering teams" webinar. They will discuss the methods they’ve used to share knowledge and collaborate across their engineering teams.

8/12/2021

Virtual

Coding a New Customer Experience: How Vanguard Upleveled Their Org and Brand With Observability

Rich Anakor, Chief Solutions Architect at Vanguard, runs a small team with a colossal goal: Give Vanguard customers a top-notch experience by enabling internal engineering teams to better understand their massively complex production environment. He’s joining Honeycomb on August 12th to discuss how adopting observability is changing the way his teams prioritize effort and do their best work.

7/27/2021

Virtual

Hot Swapping Active Production Services Reliably With Honeycomb

The Mode Analytics backend team is updating different services in their stack by hot swapping them in production. Join our webinar July 27 at 10 a.m. PT| 1 p.m. ET to learn how to create a migration validation strategy with feature flags, error reporting, and observability, use OpenTelemetry to provide any custom insights you need, and breakdown complex service migrations into manageable milestones with Honeycomb.

7/21/2021

Virtual

Game Developer Conference Speakers, Liz Fong-Jones, Michael Simo & Kent Quirk

Honeycomb's Liz, Michael, & Kent are speaking at the Game Developer Conference virtual event. They will share their observability insights on game server architecture, covering how to increase developer velocity and improve player experience by implementing Honeycomb.io open-source instrumentation SDKs and collection agents.

6/29/2021

Virtual

The State of Observability 2021: Mature Teams Ship Better Code Faster and You Can Too

The 2021 Observability Maturity Community Research report is the first year-over-year look at the observability landscape and how practices are evolving. Organizations on the higher end of the observability maturity spectrum are realizing the benefits and are 3X more likely to deliver high customer satisfaction. Join James Governor, Charity Majors, and Joe Thackery as they walk through the findings.

6/24/2021

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, INS1GHTS Speaker

Liz, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is giving a talk at the INS1GHTS 2021 virtual event. Come hear how to improve sustainability by empowering other engineers, especially non-SREs, to understand our systems, rather than for the sake of our resumes and/or glory.

6/24/2021

Virtual

Charity Majors, cdCon Keynote Speaker

Honeycomb's Charity Majors and Redmonk's James Governor will be participating in a fireside chat at the cdCon 2021 virtual event. This session will help you adopt the production excellence mindset and come away with tactics around implementing modern software practices like progressive delivery, observability, and service-level objectives (SLOs).

6/22/21-6/25/21

Virtual

Alayshia Knighten, PagerDuty Summit Speaker

Alayshia, Honeycomb Senior Implementation Engineer, is speaking at PagerDuty Summit. She will discuss how to transform and translate business outcomes, plus engineer needs, into customer love with Observability.

6/22/21-6/25/21

Virtual

PagerDuty Summit Keynote Speaker, Christine Yen

Christine, Honeycomb CEO & Co-founder, is a featured keynote panelist at the PagerDuty Summit virtual event. In this panel, you’ll hear from leaders passionate about DevOps and their thoughts on what’s next.

6/16/2021

Virtual

Unscripted Panelist, Charity Majors

Charity, Honeycomb CTO & Co-founder, is joining a panel session at the virtual Unscripted conference. She will share how she uses Observability practices and solutions to build confidence in delivering the best software applications and systems today.

6/9/21-6/10/21

Virtual

o11ycon+hnycon

Register for this free 2-day virtual conference on the future of shipping software, June 9-10, 2021. o11ycon brings the vendor-neutral observability community together to advance the practice. hnycon is where you learn how to implement observability successfully with Honeycomb.

6/8/2021

Virtual

Emily Nakashima, LeadDev Together Panelist

Emily, Honeycomb VP Engineering, is a panelist at the LeadDev Together virtual conference. In this session, she joins other lead engineers to discuss how to measure the human side of success on your engineering teams, and how to troubleshoot if something’s not quite right.

5/20/2021

Virtual

The New Faces of Continuous Improvement Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity, Honeycomb's CTO & Co-founder, is joined by engineering leaders from GitHub and Netflix for a LinearB watch party taking place in the Dev Interrupted discord community. They will share their thoughts on creating Continuous Improvement in Engineering Organizations in this one-time event.

5/20/2021

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, WTF Is SRE Speaker

Liz, Honeycomb Principal Developer Advocate, joins WTF is SRE?- a virtual conference designed by SREs for SREs. Gain insight on reducing attack surfaces, security in complex systems, alerting on application performance, the effect of multicloud on SRE, how to unify software and systems engineering and so much more.

5/18/2021

Virtual

o11yfest Panelist, Shelby Spees

Shelby, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is part of a panel discussion at o11yfest. She will share her experience with the challenges we all may face when encouraging better observability practices, adopting new technologies, and otherwise getting started on the adoption journey. Honeycomb is excited to be a Premiere sponsor of this event.

5/12/2021

Virtual

Continuous Lifecycle Keynote Speaker, Liz Fong-Jones

Liz, Honeycomb Principal Developer Advocate, is a keynote speaker at the Continuous Lifecycle online conference. She will discuss the initial manual experiments Honeycomb ran, the bugs in our automatic replacement tools we uncovered, and what steps we needed to progress towards continuously running the experiments

5/11/2021

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, DeveloperWeek Global: Management Speaker

Liz is speaking about the tradeoffs on the road to observability at the DeveloperWeek Global: Management virtual conference. Learn how to improve sustainability by empowering other engineers, especially non-SREs, to understand our systems, rather than for the sake of our resumes and/or glory.

5/4/2021

Virtual

DevOpsDays Seattle Speaker, Shelby Spees

Shelby, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is giving a talk at DevOpsDays Seattle. Stop in to learn how application and platform teams can leverage modern software delivery tools to shift left on service reliability while reducing stress and delivering better business value.

4/29/2021

Virtual

Shelby Spees, Conf42 Featured Speaker

Shelby, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is a featured speaker at the Conf42: Cloud Native virtual conference. Come learn how high-cardinality observability data supported performing side-by-side comparisons of the same workloads on different processor architectures, and how to gain similar insights into your own infrastructure. Honeycomb is a proud partner of this event.

4/27/2021

Virtual

DeveloperWeek Europe Speakers, Liz Fong-Jones & Shelby Spees

Liz and Shelby are speaking at DeveloperWeek Europe 2021. Liz is giving a talk about refining systems data without losing fidelity. Shelby will be exploring how Honeycomb’s engineering team leverages high-context telemetry data to measure service heath and risk in order to determine when it’s safe to perform experiments. Honeycomb is excited to be a partner in this event.

4/27/2021

Virtual

Failover Conf Panelist, Emily Nakashima

Emily, VP Engineering of Honeycomb, in joining a panel discussion at Failover Conf: Fail Smarter. She will sit down with other SRE leaders to discuss the processes they use to get the most insight into their applications, how they've increase the speed of detection and response, and what organizations need to do to stay on top of growing complexity. Honeycomb is pleased to sponsor this event.

4/21/2021

Virtual

Destination: Scale Sponsor

Honeycomb is sponsoring the Destination: Scale digital event. Join us to explore ways organizations can empower their global platforms teams to drive operational efficiencies and scale their processes. Sessions will examine how platform teams can standardize management technology, optimize processes, and drive reusability to save developers time – and focus on building the features that matter.

4/20/2021

Virtual

PulumiUP Panelist, Charity Majors

Charity, Honeycomb CTO & Co-founder, joins a panel discussion with technical leaders and Pulumi customers at the PulumiUP virtual event. They will discuss how they adopted Cloud Engineering best practices and how those practices have helped them be successful in this new era of software development.

4/20/2021

Virtual

Collision Conf Speaker, Christine Yen

Christine, Honeycomb CEO & Co-founder, is sharing a story at the virtual Collision Conference. She shares lessons from building her first company and breaks down the current landscape for software development teams.

3/24/2021

Virtual

CTO Craft Conference Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity, Honeycomb's CTO & co-founder, is a speaker at CTO Craft Con. Join her and other CTOs and technology leaders from around the globe talking all things Delivery. Honeycomb is excited to be partnering with CTO Craft for this event.

3/18/2021

Virtual

Progressive Delivery Conference Speaker, Shelby Spees

Shelby is speaking at the Progressive Delivery virtual conference. Learn how application and platform teams can leverage modern software delivery tools to shift left on service reliability while reducing stress and delivering better business value. Honeycomb is proud to be sponsoring this event.

3/17/2021

Virtual

Webinar: Achieving Production Excellence at Scale

Whether you’re a startup building new services from scratch or in a brownfield enterprise environment, this webinar offers expert advice on how to get started and how to measure the ROI of implementing modern software practices like progressive delivery, observability, and service-level objectives (SLOs).

3/16/2021

Virtual

InfoQ Live Roundtable Speaker, Christine Yen

Christine, Honeycomb's CEO & co-founder, is part of an InfoQ Live roundtable discussion. Join her to discuss practical monitoring and observability methods that DevOps and SRE teams can employ to balance change and uncertainty without the need to constantly reconfigure monitoring systems.

3/11/2021

Virtual

Shelby Spees, The CloudFirst Speaker

Shelby, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, will be giving a talk at The CloudFirst virtual event. Learn how application and platform teams can leverage modern software delivery tools to shift left on service reliability while reducing stress and delivering better business value.

2/25/2021

Virtual

SKILup Days Speaker, Shelby Spees

Shelby is a speaker at the SKILup Days virtual event. Her talk will introduce observability-driven development and how it works with feature flags. She will walk through how Honeycomb’s product engineering team applies these practices to real feature development. Honeycomb is excited to sponsor this event.

2/22/2021

Virtual

Cloud-Native Goes Native Webinar, Charity Majors

Charity, Honeycomb's CTO & co-founder, is joining David McKay for a DevOps.com webinar. They will take a look at the cloud-native landscape and discuss its impact on DevOps, application security and more.

2/17/21-2/19/21

Virtual

Developer Week Sponsor

Honeycomb is proud to be a sponsor for the Developer Week virtual conference. Join us February 17-19 to discover the latest in developer technologies, languages, platforms, and tools.

2/16/2021

Virtual

Shelby Spees, InfoQ Roundtable Discussion Speaker

Shelby joins other extraordinary speakers driving change and innovation at InfoQ Live. They will discuss how they embrace production and ways to make it easier for others to onboard and keep the system up and running. Honeycomb is pleased to be partnering with InfoQ for this event.

2/11/2021

Virtual

Cloud Native Chaos Carnival Speaker, Shelby Spees

Shelby, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is speaking at the Chaos Carnival virtual event. Her talk explores how Honeycomb’s engineering team leverages high-context telemetry data to measure service heath and risk in order to determine when it’s safe to perform experiments.

12/17/2020

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, AWS Community Voices Presenter

Along with 3 other AWS heroes, Liz will discuss her reactions and thought’s to the weeks’ launches, sessions, and overall re:Invent happenings.

12/16/2020

Virtual

Shelby Spees, Cloud Native Kitchen Speaker

Shelby will explain how to generate better data and gain new insights. You'll walk away ready to use observability to level up everyone on your team!

12/9/2020

Virtual

GitHub Universe Speaker, Christine Yen

Christine's talk will cover how to implement observability practices (from your tools and from your humans) and what you can achieve as a result.

12/9/2020

Virtual Talk

React \w/ Cassandra Dev Day Speaker, Charity Majors

Charity will navigate the importance of observability, flexibility, and scalability when working with JSON data at this fireside chat.

12/7/20

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, SREcon20 Americas Speaker

Learn how Honeycomb improved the reliability of our Zookeeper, Kafka, and stateful storage systems through terminating nodes on purpose.

12/7/2020 -12/9/2020

Virtual

Honeycomb is an SREcon20 Americas Sponsor

SREcon20 is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale.

12/1/2020

Virtual

LeadDev Panelist, Liz Fong-Jones

Liz, Honeycomb Developer Advocate and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), is joined by experts Tom Oketch and Ryan Katkov at a LeadDev panel discussion. Join them to learn how you can create a safe culture that enables engineers to learn, try, and test.

10/21/2020

Virtual

Emily Nakashima, CTO Connection Online Speaker

Emily, Honeycomb's VP of Engineering, will be speaking at the CTO Connection Online event. Swing in and hear her talk, "Hiring is broken: reflections on building a higher-signal, less-harmful hiring process."

11/17/20-11/20/20

Virtual

KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America Sponsor

We are delighted to be partnering with KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America for their virtual conference. Join Honeycomb and other adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities.

11/19/2020

Virtual

Shelby Spees, London TAD Community Meetup Panelist

Shelby, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is a panelist at the virtual London TAD Community Meetup. Stop in to this live event to learn why you should be testing in production.

11/16/2020

Virtual

Serverless Toronto Meetup Speakers, Charity Majors & Liz Fong-Jones

Charity and Liz are giving talks at the Serverless Toronto Meetup. Charity will go through the sociotechnical strategies great teams (worldwide) are using to be happier and more productive, and Liz will give an SRE Overview (from SLOs and SLIs to Error Budgets and Observability).

10/22/2020

Virtual

DevOps Experience Keynote Speaker, Charity Majors

Honeycomb is proud to be a DevOps Experience sponsor. Also, our own CTO & co-founder, Charity, is a keynote speaker at this virtual summit. Stop in and hear what she has to share.

10/21/2020

Virtual

Operations: Past, Present, and Glorious Future Webinar, Charity Majors

Charity is a featured speaker for A Cloud Guru webinar- Operations: Past, Present, and Glorious Future. This session will cover the many guises of Ops work, picking the right companies, unexpected ways to apply that expertise, and how to make proactive career decisions that get you where you want to be.

10/8/2020

Virtual

Charity Majors, Cloud Engineering Summit Speaker

Charity is joining other cloud engineering leaders and practitioners to share best practices and end-user stories at the Cloud Engineering Summit. Hear her talk about testing in production at this virtual event.

10/6/2020

Virtual

Liz Fong-Jones, Chaos Conference Speaker

Liz, Honeycomb's Developer Advocate and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), is a speaker at Chaos Conference. Join this virtual event to learn how Honeycomb improved the reliability of our Zookeeper, Kafka, and stateful storage systems through terminating nodes on purpose.

10/6/2020

Virtual

Arm DevSummit 2020 Speaker, Liz Fong-Jones

Liz will be a keynote speaker at the Arm DevSummit 2020 virtual event. She joins Cloud Executives and Software Developers to discuss the opportunities and challenges for running cloud-native applications on Arm.

9/29/2020

Virtual

Shelby Spees, Learn With Jason: What the H*ck is Observability?

Shelby is joining Jason Lengstorf on an episode of Learn With Jason: What the H*ck is Observability? She will share how to use Honeycomb to debug complex systems in production.

9/25/2020

Virtual

Emily Nakashima, Web Directions Code Speaker

Emily, Honeycomb's VP of Engineering, is speaking at the Web Directions Code remote conference. She will talk about how approaching web perf through the lens of observability has changed the way her team thinks about perf instrumentation & optimization.

9/24/20-9/25/20

Virtual

Elevate 2020 Workshop, Megan Gleason

Megan, Honeycomb Head of Product, is giving a workshop at Plato's Elevate 2020 virtual event. She’ll explore strategies for building product in a way that optimizes for frequent delivery of value to customers, and the ability to support business objectives. Honeycomb is proud to be a sponsor for this event.

9/23/2020

Virtual

InfoQ Live Roundtable, Charity Majors

Charity, Honeycomb's CTO & co-founder, joins fellow engineers at the InfoQ Live roundtable event. She will take a look at what it means to have a resilient, production apps today.

9/22/2020

Virtual

DevOpsTuesDays Zurich Meetup Speaker, Shelby Spees

Shelby, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, is speaking at the DevOpsTuesDays Zurich virtual meetup. She will walk through how Honeycomb uses CircleCI, Terraform, Chef, a handful of home-grown scripts, and Honeycomb itself to speed up deployments and make them safer.

9/21/20-9/24/20

Virtual

PagerDuty Summit Sponsor

Honeycomb is excited to sponsor the PagerDuty Summit virtual event. Come learn several practices core to production excellence as Liz Fong-Jones takes the stage on September 23rd. See you there!

7/14/2020

Virtual

London Web Performance Speaker, Emily Nakashima

Emily, Honeycomb's VP of Engineering, is speaking at the virtual London Web Perf Meetup. She will talk about how approaching web performance through the lens of observability has changed the way her team thinks about performance instrumentation and optimization.

4/14/2020

Virtual

Write/Speak/Code Meetup Speaker, Liz Fong-Jones

Liz is giving a lightning talk at the Write/Speak/Code Seattle virtual meetup. She will share useful tips & techniques for successful live streaming. This event begins at 5:00pm PST. Don't be late!